Puzzle postal card.



C. B. ROSBNBERGER.

PUZZLE POSTAL CARD. APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1908 984,302. BatentedFeb. 14, 1911.

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PUZZLE POSTAL CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

Application filed July 20, 1908. Serial No. 444,421.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. Roses- BERGER, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Puzzle Postal Cards, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing. v

This invention relates to puzzle postal 'ards upon which are depictedpuzzles.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a labyrinthian puzzleoi an intricate, complicated and perplexing design.

Another object of this invention is to provide a puzzle having deviousblind courses for reaching a goal, which present diliiculties andobstructions, some necessitating an entirely new beginning, while otherscause steps to be partially, if not wholly, retraced.

A further object of this invention is to provide a puzzle postal cardthat cau be used as a souvenir or for advertising purposes, a greaterportion of the card contain ing the puzzle that requires consideral;.-lcskill to solve.

My invention will be presently descrilzed in detail and reference willnow be had to the drawing, wherein I have illustrated a plan of a postalcard depicting my puzzle.

The reference numeral 1 designates a card having printed or otherwisemarked thereon a rectangle or square located approximately intermediatethe ends of the card. Inthe lower lefthand corner of the square isprinted a star 3 representing the starting point of the puzzle, and inthe upper right hand corner is another star 4 representing the goal ofthe puzzle. In the square is printed a plurality of vertical, horizontaland diagonally disposed lines, some of these lines intersecting andproviding what I term blind courses, for instance the course 5, whenonce entered necessitates the retracing of the steps taken in saidcourse. The lines at the lower edge of the square and at the right handside thereof are bounded by lines-6 and 7, these lines providing what Iterm successful courses 8 and 9, particu larly the course 9, which whenonce reached cannot be deviated from without reaching the goal 4..

A rule to he observed when solving the puzzle is to pass from one starto another through the open spaces or courses without crossing a line.and to make the puzzle ditlicult. I arrange words in the course 8, for

instance. pat. applied for." Certain letters of these words touch thelower line of the square. while other letters touch the line (3. Some ofthe lines are connected together, while spaces are left between others,whereby a line can be easily traced from the l starting point 3 alongthe course 8, in and out the lines and up the course 9 to the tinishingpoint -t. This is the one successful route by which the puzzle can besolved, and the other of said lines are provided simply to impart animpression that the puzzle is solved by the intricate course describedby the complexity of lines.

Upon the :ard suitable directions are printed together with other matterrelating thereto.

I reserve the right to use other words than pat. applied for in thecourse 8.

Having now described my invention what I claim as new, is:-

puzzle consisting of a base having thereon a labyrinth and furtherhaving transverse and longitudinal parallel lines surrounding thelabyrinth to provide transversely and longitudinally extending courses,one oi said transverse courses having words arranged therein, some ofthe letters of the words joined with one of the transverse lines andother of the letters of the words joined with the other of thetransverse lincs which form the course in which the words are arranged.some of the letters of the words being disjoincd. the transverse coursein which are arranged the words being wider than the other transversecourse, said base further having a starting and a goal indicating marklocated at the junction of a transverse course with alongitndinalcourse.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES B. ROSENBERGER.

Witnesses MAX H. SROLOVIIZ,

K. H.|BUTLER.

